The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-28
necroiogy Of 1887-Death's Busy Rec
ord in the Ranks Of the Worlds
Distinguished People.
HE Casualty Record-A Long List of
Accidents Involving Loss of
Human Life.
A Catalogue of the Legal Executions and
Victims of Mob Law During
the Year.
CHRONOLOGY.
Noteworthy Occurrences OF the
Year.
JANUARY

noteworthy occurrences Oh the
Year.
JANUARY
i-Steamer La Champagne landed her passon-
gers &C Hdvre, France, having sailed from New
York on Christmas Emperor William cele-
DRAFTED me cightieth anniversary of hrs joining
the RUSSIAN army.
2-sundsy law enforced at New Orleans bar
Soorss generally closed no liquors given away.
5-Etrx tune in history wheat OF excellent
qu@atv and superior weight exported by Russia
from tho Oaucasus
G-Four young men hanged Mt Sydney, n. S.
W.. for brutal assault upon girl Of III.
y-South Carolina coast covered with dead
tsh to dspth OF one foot; result OF volcanic dis
turDance.
4-sadie Hayes. negress, who killed police
sergeant in IT. Louis, sentenced to penitentiary
for niIcsy- nine years
FEBRUARY,
6-owntonna Mimi people startled by thun-
Der ana lightning lastlng an hour. with mer-
curry boiow zero
l6-To commemorate tho jubilee of Queen
Victoria, 21.oOt persons were released from jaiis
IN INDIA
lT-$eamship Great Eastern, built in 1859 at
cost II s4.0p-,sU, sold ut auction for $4,000.
"A bill proposing to change tho jury laws
so ns b Iegslize two-tnirds verdict was ia
vorasiy reported in the Pennsylvania House.
MARCH.
4-Death-rol OF Forty-nnth Congress COM
prised thirteen names in Senate and House.
i5-At noon, darkness equal to midnight
spreas over the reg ON Of Charing Cross. White
hall, and the Strand, London. snow meantime
failing heavily.
General, Marquis Abzsc, that he would
al hrs ntluence to maintain peace.
15-President Gle 'eland entered upon his
10 Citizens of Buffalo decided upon the re-
povd of ovarhead wires. because they prevent
effective work by the fire department
2s-Nfnetieth birthday OF Emperor William
of Ger-a ny.
2i-Gorrnany refused to participate In the
Paris International Exhi eitfon of 1889. Three
hundses trdmps invaded n Chinese village. and
were lured by the inhabitants into u temple,
witch was then fired, only forty OF the wander
ers escaping.
sO-RIeven inches OF snow fell ut Lexington.
Ky.
+l-Heavy snowstorm prevailed in Virginia
APRIL.
5-The Pennsylvania Senate passed bill
.pro -t&ing that murderers may be put TO death
i4-Snrah b. Howe. the Boston banker, fed
with ts,sso intrusted to her by creduIous peo-
pile.
1.-The Delawace Senate passed bill pro-
hfbittag absolutely the manufacture and sale
of o0sus buster.
4-EarthC make shocks mt FL Paso Texas Albu-
,queraee San Marcial, and Lake Valley, N. NJ,
Crested great alarm, feeling akin to seasick-
ssaafng many persons. Volcanoes broke
ont in the Wines oster, whetstone, and San
Jose Msa1Sans. Arizona
7-Gov. Hi signed the bal making Satu rday
a half-holidny throughout tie State OF new
York
Inauguration of great strike and lock-
<1ut ut Chicago OF w.rktngmen connected with
fhe bukaing trades, fncluetrng ~ 0ss carpenters,
bricklayrs. masons, painters, etc. the brick
LAYERS Insistes liant Saturday shosld DO pay
Sey, wadie the muster builders held out for
Tuesday or "Wednesday
JUNE.
Mob Meadows assaseinated by unknown
PERSONS At Ozark Mo, maKing the forty-third
zls0raor TO the credit of Christian County since
tie war
Il-Oueen Victoria began tho afty-first vear
sf her reign Great Britain, and her jubilee
WIS ootesrated in TN impressive manner by a
I'M tsnsasert procession In London. tine most
snlposi~e pageant CT modern times.
2-An assault by negro on n white woman
"a NJ rvho use Parish. La. resulted in the death
of ore white man and vwslve no roes; Il num-
% r OF soiores people were lynched.
Al euisoy, III Prot. Baldwin dropped
sHils frsEn a bailosn to the esrsh.
0-Tss big strike in the building trades at
Dhicsaw settted by arbigation wage-earners
Sost over ,0so.Ool DIR. McGlynn, OF New York.
exc na.aunioated from the Roman Catholic
l,-Rxtemely warm weather in the country
cast of the Mississippi and south of the lakes;
the thernometer throughout the entire region
regiSerol from 20 Co l0s degrees. tae latter fig
sur being noted ut Streator, Ill. with IN chron-
nc Cd ~ Beioit. Wis. fatal sanstrokes were nu-
innerous at ono in natl st Louis and Chi ago:
the day was the hottest known in the history of
the latter city, deaths from sunstroke number
iDg -
I6-Tke Commissioned OF Pensions received n
request from "a Kansas pensioner to be taken
Kansas man claimed that his disabilities were
cured by faith.
AUGUST.
2-John Beall, aged ID, of Eaton, Ohio, con-
Tossed tine murder Of his mother.
6-Tom Voolfolk, living near Macon, Ga, was
arrested or tn murder OF his fatner and OF mt
other members OF tne family. the motive OF tho
culprt being to gain possession OF his father
properly.
John. VINO. tsirsy years ago, was sestenced to
death IN forsyth Coun y, Georgia, for murder.
SEP rEnBER.
AT Princeton Mo-, Randall Blakeslee fell
from balloon. 90 feet in the afr, and was
Killed insanity.
6--lAbor Aeliday celebrated throughout the
red ilas in the proeessions, and no Socialists
visible ~ tbs pjoacs
g-Calfornia leprated the thirty seventh
sannivosary OF its admission to the mon
BIN New York harbor, the American sloop
Nelnseer defeated che scotch cuttsr Thistle in
tae mr. OF series of races for the Americas
OPP. by " minutes "a seconds; distance, forty
nIles.
SD-Irhe yacht Volunteer again ran away from
her Ssseoa copipesttor 1 h sits In the second
oontest-same place, and under like conditions
by nearly twelve minutes
IA succes dul experiment was made at
Bellevu Hospital, New YORK City, with a tele-
phono Frobe bullet being located IN the
ia or Of n man who was shot while attempting
ST. v wocirch, merchant lost his way
IN the Mount Unlaek gold dis riot, Wild unin-
kabsted se ON Of kova Scotia, and
caed after Ia ing existed on wnter Tor eleven
=, Tho dead bodies II thirteen infants wore
found in an old ci.tern at Toledo, Ohio, on
premises once ocouncd by midwife. who was
put under q rest
If rst snowstorm Of the season, at points
I'm Michigan aud wisconsin.
NOVEMBER
1I--Four of the lead ns advocates OF social
Uevolution (anarchistsJ-August sgies. Aooph
Fischer. George n rel and Albert IL. Parsons-
persisted on the scasold at Chicago They were
proven TO be conspirato-e and participants In
fhe famous riot at the Haymarhet square, Chi
cago. Mays, 1896. which caused the death OF
others. Samuel Fiolden ana Michael Schwab.